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Fujifilm X-M5 Camera Review | A Vloggers Dream...or Nightmare?
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Jan 20, 2025
Photographer Dustin Abbott shares a thorough, real world review of the Fujifilm X-M5 vlogging camera. Is this one worth buying? | This episode is sponsored by the Iniu P63 Cougar powerbank. Get yours here: Amazon US https://amzn.to/40EBIkA | Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/42Es6bh | Amazon UK https://amzn.to/40BYKsu | Read the Text Review: https://tinyurl.com/X-M5review | Purchase the Fujifilm X-M5 @ B&H Photo https://bhpho.to/4fEBluM | Adorama https://howl.link/w1nubnlugumqj | Amazon https://amzn.to/3W4uP9K | Camera Canada https://shrsl.com/4swss | Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/4fHqlwD | Amazon UK https://amzn.to/4j1wPJC | Amazon Germany https://amzn.to/41ZGA4Z Check out the DA Merch here: https://bit.ly/TWIMerch | Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/dustinabbott | On the Web: http://dustinabbott.net/ | Sign up for my Newsletter: http://bit.ly/1RHvUNp | Instagram: http://bit.ly/DLAinsta | Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1nuUUeH | Flickr: http://bit.ly/1UcnC0B | 500px: http://bit.ly/1Sy2Ngu Follow Craig @ https://www.instagram.com/craigstoffersen/ Want to support this channel? Use these affiliate links to shop at: B&H Photo: http://bhpho.to/1TA0Xge Adorama: https://howl.link/nt4zdz1goa7ql Camera Canada: http://bit.ly/DLACameraCan Sony Canada: https://www.thesonyshop.ca/?ref=abbott Amazon: https://amzn.to/3HrY64d Amazon Canada: https://amzn.to/3qG1p18 Ebay: http://bit.ly/DustineBay Into the AM Clothing: https://bit.ly/intotheAMda and use code DUSTIN10 for 10% off Fioboc Clothing: https://tinyurl.com/FiobocDA20 and us code DUSTIN20 for 20% off Make a donation via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/dustinTWI ============================= Table of Contents: ============================= 0:00 - Intro
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[Music] hi I'm Dustin Abbott Fuji's X100 Mark 6
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is the camera that broke the internet in 2024 no camera in recent history has been in such high demand and Fuji's new
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xm5 probably won't achieve that same level of populist appeal but it is
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certainly true that it has at least some of the visual uh Vibe and overall style
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that that camera has underneath that retro exterior is a Thoroughly Modern
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camera that is focused on vlogging and content creation however and unlike the
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x16 it will slot in as the least expensive camera in Fuji's current
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lineup at just $799 for the camera body only or
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$899 in kit with this XC 15 to 45 mm lens so the question that we're here to
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answer is this a camera worth choosing over some of the Alternatives like Sony
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zv E10 Mark I that I reviewed last year or the Canon R50 or r10 models or even
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the most recent from Nikon as well well that's what we're going to explore here after a word from our sponsor today's
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$70 by visiting the link in the description below so we'll start by highlighting some of the key upgrades of
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this particular model this has Fuji's 26.1 megapixel apsc XTR 4 Coss sensor uh
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one of the basically two sensors that they employ at this point it has their latest AI assist processing algorithms
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that will allow it to have basically about as good autofocus as you're going to find on most of Fuji's models you
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also have an option to have open gate video at 6.2k at 30 frames per second
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10bit internal recording and of course 4K 60 4K 30 etc etc it has 425 Point AF
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it has AI based subject detection you can get actually up to 30 frames per second in jpeg shooting with a 1.25 crop
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or up to 20 times or 20 frames per second with the electronic shutter without any kind of crop it is
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compatible with Fuji's full full range of X Series lenses and of course many third party lenses at this point it has
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a 3in 1.04 million dot fully articulating touchscreen LCD it has
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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless connectivity and then of course you can potentially get it with this lens if you
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so desire so that's the feature list but how does it hold up in the real world and let's talk about the build and
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handling first of all as noted there are some similar Style Elements to Fuji's
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most popular camera including the extremely slim profile this camera is just 38 mm or 1.5 in deep which is at
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least an inch Slimmer than any of the competing camera of course there is a trade-off for that there is almost no
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grip here and so it ends up being a camera that I feel like I end up pinching instead of gripping because
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there's literally no place to curl my fingers around so I don't actually find it particularly comfortable particularly
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for one-handed operation because I feel like I'm putting all the pressure points on uh two fingers here just kind of
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squeezing the camera against my palm to hold it in place there is a decent place for the thumb to go a little protrusion
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back here and that does help a bit but this is a camera that is probably going to be most comfortable shooting with
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smaller and lighter lenses you put heavy lenses on this and it's definitely going to be a case of the tail wagging the dog
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most comfortable is when you can have a lens you just kind of support with your left hand to where you're not having to carry all of the weight with your right
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hand now the reason why I have this kind of loosely on here is I do need to illustrate a point because there is
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basically no grip here that means that there's no option for the battery to be fit in in a vertical fashion here and so
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the battery has to fit long ways in the body this is the mpw 126s battery that's
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in a lot of their models it was in The X 1006 as well or V6 it is rated in this
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instance for 440 shots but that's a little bit deceptive that's in their eco mode and eco mode means you're going
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getting less performance not only in the screen but also in the autofocus system so there probably won't be a lot of
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situations where you're going to want to employ that so if you're just shooting in normal mode it's rated at 330 normal
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shots and so that's probably a more typical rating truth of the matter is it probably exceeds that in most kinds of
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situations but I think the biggest area that you're going to have to worry about battery capacity is if you are shooting
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a lot of either 6K or 4K video you're definitely going to need spares there
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because at best you're going to get about 45 minutes of recording out of that the other thing that I do want to
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highlight here that has been very relevant for me is that I typically like to put these Peak design capture plates
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on all of my cameras you'll see that I've got the Anchor Point attached to it that means I can throw a strap quickly
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on and off without having to do a lot of messing around it and not having it attached all the time it also means because these are ARCA compatible that I
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can throw my cameras right onto a tripod for doing test or for shooting and not have to mess around with adding and
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removing a QR plate every time problem being here is that because the battery
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has to fit you know in the width of the camera it also means that the battery or
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the memory card which is located down here is to the far if I'm holding it here to the far left and so closest to
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the center of the camera which means that there is just no way even if I'm using a small plate like this that I can
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open this door and get either the battery or the memory card out because it literally hinders is right next to
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that attachment point it's a real pain uh because it means that in every case that I want to get at that I've got to
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remove the the QR plate or just not mess with it alt together and so it is my
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least favorite location for a memory card to fit I'm not so concerned about the battery because you can charge the
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battery within the camera but it's a real pain if you need to get that memory card in and out which of course I often
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do as a part of my test the tradeoff for you know that vulnerable ability is that
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the camera is really really Slim and if you had a little tiny pancake lens on here it truly would be a pocketable
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camera uh because you would not need a whole lot of width there and even today I was able to slide it into a jacket
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pocket with a slim lens attached to it the weight here is fairly lightweight
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though maybe not as much as what you might think it weighs 355 G or 12.5 o
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which surprisingly is a little bit heavier than the Sony zve E10 Mark II uh although you know looks metal because of
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the the silver finish it actually is primarily Plastics in the body but there is a little bit of extra heft there
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relative to that however it is lighter than a camera like Canon's r10 so kind
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of fit there in the Middle Ground of the competing type cameras now when it comes to the control scheme this really isn't
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as retro in its design as some of Fuji's other cameras there are some prominent
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dials there on the on the top but really overall I would find I would say that the control scheme here is pretty
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typical you've got a large mode dial there on the front or on the top the camera which is pretty typical on the
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left side you do have something unique to this camera that you're not going to see on other brands and that is because
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Fuji is all in on their film simulations it's one thing that sets them apart from other brands and people tend to really
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like their film simulations and so they're all in in this particular camera and that there is a dial here on the
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left side that is whol dedicated to just being able to select some of the most popular of these film simulations and so
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they're not all on there however there are a number of them on there plus the ability to you know to go to a a custom
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concoction that you've put together in camera now this is is probably only great if
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you are a JPEG shooter the reason why I say that is it really doesn't matter what you selected here if you're
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shooting in raw as I do you get the same raw file either way and so in the first
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case uh here I selected just their standard profile I then move to the velvia
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profile they look identical because for the raw file they actually are the problem I have with this is because this
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is the way that I particularly shoot I then could say okay well I'll use that dial for something else I haven't found
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a way to assign any other value to it so it is going to be kind of um a pointless
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dial for me in most of the time in most situations and ironically in the front
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here there is a command dial and that actually is clickable and when you click
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it it will rotate between three uh it starts off with three default different options and so as you click that in it
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changes the function of that front command dial in this case however one of
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those three basic options in fact was uh having different film simulations which
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seems kind of odd when you've got a whole dial associated with that now fortunately you can customize these menu
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options that when you click it in different things pop up and so you can move it to something else instead or in
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my case I just eliminated one of those alt together because it becomes kind of clunky you can put I think as many as
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four but if you're having to click through four different options every time to get to what you're looking for
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it's just not all that beneficial and so that front control dial is then augmented by a rear control dial here
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that you can assign different values to my least favorite ergonomic thing is the
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Q button which is for the quick menu they've made this little tiny button
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that sits very flush and have located it between two big dials which means that even with your bare fingertip it is not
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easy to depress it's January in Canada right now which means I'm wearing gloves
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when I'm out shooting trying to access that with a glove forget about it it is impossible so that to me is a a serious
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design flaw there one of my least favorite things about the ergonomics here also on the front outside of the
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shutter button is around that shutter button is the switch that will turn the camera on on and off there's also a
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dedicated video record button there though if you are in video mode you can also activate it with the shutter if you
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are so inclined the back of the camera it's a small camera and so I mean it's
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it's not as ergonomically friendly is what I would love but I have a similar complaint with a lot of these type models and so this is no better or no
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worse really than any of them the one thing I will say better is that you do have a little joystick here which I do
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appreciate um because it does give you a control point unfortunately though some of the other models from Sony Nikon or
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Canon they're much more friendly to touch control on the touchcreen and unfortunately there is still very very
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limited touch capacity here you can access that quick menu by touch and then
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if you're in the vlogging mode which we'll get to in a moment there are some onscreen controls that you can activate
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by touch but there's a little bit of lag in touch input it's not as responsive as other models and you cannot navigate any
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kind of the full menu um with a touch but I think even more essential here is
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that you can't quick access any of these things like your fstop or ISO you can't
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just touch those places as you can on most cameras and just pull up a quick touch box as a secondary control and so
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that is something that continues to be lacking in all of Fuji's models at this point now interestingly they have
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located a mic input that is right near the hot shoe on the top that's used
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because it means that if you're connecting something there it is not going to you know conflict with the
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screen flipping out forward likewise any of the ports they've located all on the right side so there is nothing here
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that's obstructing your visibility of the screen all of the top kind of plate
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buttons on the back are quite small there's a drive button there there is a play button and then there is an a AFL
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button a focus hold button that you can access there underneath the joystick down towards the bottom there's a menu
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okay button and a display back button that if you long press will activate your Bluetooth um connectivity now this
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camera does have a headphone monitoring Jack which is welcome I believe that was something that the zve 10 Mark II was
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missing and then you have a USBC Port that is for both data and charging the
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battery and then there is a micro HDMI port I don't love my micro HDMI you
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probably don't either but the reality is is in a tiny camera like this there's just not a lot of real state to put
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anything larger there one of thing that is worth noting here as far as
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connectivity is that this camera is compatible with um with Fuji's it's fan1
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accessory and that will allow you to do actual active cooling of the chassis of
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the camera so if you're you're filming long format it can be really useful there uh for that so far it seems like
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you know the most recent cameras that have a fully articulating screen requires that to access putting that on
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there and so that you can use that so if you've already purchased that for another camera it is compatible here as
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well now I've already lamented the touchcreen a little bit I know that some of you prefer a tilting style I do
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prefer the articulating myself for a number of reasons but either way it is articulating it's a 3-in display and
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unfortunately it's not particularly high resolution it's only 1.04 million dots of resolution that's unfortunate because
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this is your only interaction point on this there is no viewfinder on the camera and so that means that the better
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the screen is the better it's going to be to be able to capture and to see what you're doing the screen is reasonably
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bright but on a bright winter day like this I mean I went out and shot earlier
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with the camera just to catch a few more images on a on a beautiful day and I
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found that I couldn't hardly see the screen at all and so it's either a matter of trying to shade that there's
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been a number of times when it's bright that I'm putting the camera up to a to my eye and there's no viewfinder there
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but again the zve 10 Mark II doesn't have one either I just really miss it your mileage may vary other thing that's
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missing here is any kind of inbody IM image stabilization not really expected in this model you're going to pay
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probably about $500 more to move up to a Fuji model that has embody image stabilization amongst other features and
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so just know that that is lacking here there is some digital stabilization when you're shooting video however you know
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that comes with extreme limitations including a significant crop factor that we'll talk about in a moment I'll take
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just a moment to talk about the kit lens here this is an XC 15 to 45 mm the XC
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models tend to be just a little cheaper in their you know physical design a little more like plastic Fantastics than
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Fuji's other lenses and that includes even having a plastic Mount here however that being said this lens in Kit only
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cost a hundred bucks it costs $300 if you buy it separately so if you're going to want it you're definitely going to want to buy it in kit 100 bucks is not
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much for a lens like this and it does have some some practical value uh for one thing it does have ois or Optical
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image stabilization so if you're wanting to capture video with this camera it gives you a lens that will provide
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stabilization which is going to work much better than a non-stabilized lens the other advantage that it has is this
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is a power zoom lens and so that means that as you rotate the um Zoom dial it
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will mechanically zoom in and out and then so allow you to have uh smoother
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zoom zoom interactions here we'll also note that if you're in Vlog mode the power Zoom can be accessed via the
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screen as well and you can do touchscreen up and down and this I would say most of the time it's actually smoother to do it through the ring
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itself now this is a retrac toal zoom design and so when you power the camera off the inner barrel is going to retract
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but I vastly prefer this to Canon models that require you to First twist before
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the lens can even be usable in this case because it it power out there pretty quickly you're not going to be missing
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shots which I appreciate U which is unlike the the Canon model for sure now
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image quality is well you know it's it's about what you expect it's okay but it's certainly not exceptional you're
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probably going to want an upgrade in image quality if you get serious about shooting particularly for Stills um
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where you know image quality tends to be a little bit more demanding now on the mode dial there is a dedicated Vlog mode
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and that's worth talking about because that's really at the heart of of this particular camera and so you can see here that when you go into Vlog mode it
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opens up a completely different um menu design on screen with some different
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menu options and then if you click the menu button it will populate even more menu options and put them in a frame
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around the outside of the screen itself and so you can access different things that includes uh what is unique to this
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design on the hardware side is it is the first of Fuji's cameras to have additional um microphones built into it
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so there's a total of three different microphones there's four different modes that you can access and and so let's
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take a moment and let's jump into that and let's take a look at if those different recording modes actually make
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a difference okay I'm going to be shooting a little vlogging section here
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and I'm walking through what is deep snow so you may hear some crunch we're going to go through the various options
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that are available for the built-in microphones I'm going to start by uh filming here with what they call the
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surround sound so that should have as much environmental sound as possible and
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we'll try the different modes as we move ahead here so now I'm going to just turn on the front microphone setting and so
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in this case probably should get less environmental sound the goal here is to capture what's happening in front of the
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camera rather than what's going on either around or behind the camera I'm going to switch now to the rear
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microphone setting and so in this case it probably should alter the way that my voice sounds because I am in front of
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rather than behind the camera itself now in the fourth setting which I'll switch to here now this is going to record both
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in front of and behind the camera but not to either side and so produce a
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little bit different effect hopefully so obviously you can definitely tell a difference in the
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various recording modes you're probably going to get your best audio still if you use dedicated audio recording
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devices but at the same time it is good to have some flexibility if you're really into the idea of doing Run and
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Gun another interesting feature that's a part of the vlogging mode is there's actually a shorts mode that doesn't
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require you to rotate the camera for vertical filming it uses that open gate video to provide up to 60-second
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Vertical Clips without rotating the camera so it will show you on screen the various Crop Marks and so you know what
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your framing is going to be like but you can shoot short so 60 seconds or less a Clips through that without having to do
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ro rotation now obviously if you rotate the camera you can shoot longer format if you're wanting to shoot in a vertical
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format but obviously having that you know quick thing is great because it just means that on your tripod
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particularly if you have kind of a limited tripod that doesn't have like a ball head where you can easily rotate it allows you to still get some vertical
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footage useful some other options on there while you're in vog vlogging mode include background defocus that
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background defocus mode basically all it does is it opens up the lens mounted to the largest maximum apture so it will
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blur out the background as much as possible how well that works is really going to depend on the lens you have
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attached and its ability to naturally blur out a background they have a p portrait enhancer mode it has three
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different stages of intensity and it basically is just a smoothing it's going to smooth out skin imperfections and the
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more you the stronger the effect the more plasticky the end result not something I'm a fan of but again your
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mileage may vary it also has a product priority mode which can be really useful if you're demonstrating something on
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camera and so as you if you reach towards the camera kind of showing the object the autofocus knows to prioritize
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whatever is coming out towards the camera and we'll focus on that so probably blur out your face a little bit
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then as you bring the product back it'll probably go back to focusing on your face so again some useful things for
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some people they will be gimmicks but if it seems really gimmicky you might want to look at a different camera model
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because that really is some of the inherent strengths of this lens is a little more dedication to content Creation in its various forms now on the
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auto aut Focus side of things this is basically the same autofocus system that we have been seeing for a long time uh
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since the xt3 425 AF points it is the same Basic Hardware however their
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xpressor 5 does add AI deep learning for better tracking and better subject
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recognition of a variety of things and I would say on the plus side
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I think Fuji in this most recent iteration and firmware updates on some of their other cameras
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they are getting better in terms of eye recognition and tracking and consistency of focus at least for Stills uh I
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definitely see better there I do have one ongoing complaint and that is for some reason Fuji continues to separate
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human eye detection from any other subject detection and so you have to access it in basically two different
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menus which means that if you're mapping it to a button or some kind of quick access point you actually have to map to
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two separate things because one will take you to the different options for
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eye Focus whether it's Auto or if it's focusing on the right or the left eye and then you have to go to the other
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place to you know determine whether or not you want it to look for animal subjects or you know planes cars you
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know automobiles you know etc etc so there's a variety of things that it can recognize and track at this point but
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it's a little bit clunky still at getting to it some of the competing cameras have you know enabled a an auto
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mode where the camera will automatically detect what is being tracked and those modes in my experience tend to work
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quite well overall I think that Stills is getting better I I don't think it's as good when you introduce action into
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the seam it's not going to just focus as quickly when you're shooting action but uh overall I would say instills my
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accuracy is good at this point for portraits I'm having no problems and that's with a variety of lenses so they
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have made strides in that area video however is still a little bit rough
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around the edges there is some improvement so for example let's take a look at static shots kind of what I'm
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doing right now and I'll talk to you about that for a moment and doing it while filming on this camera one of the
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things I've not been able to do over the years is to trust my Fuji cameras for recording my video sections and the
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reason is is that often Focus just doesn't say stable enough in those kinds of situations for me to fully rely upon
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it and obviously that's something incredibly important I don't have time to re-shoot episodes again and again and
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so here we're doing a a sample test I've got just the forward video mic recording
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and we're seeing how that it does with the new XF 16 to 55 mm f2.8 Mark 2 lens
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which should be one of the best lenses available at the moment we'll see how it's doing for recording this in terms
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of being solid and staying locked on my eye and not being distracted during this segment and so you can see for that
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particular shot no problem it stayed locked on me there was no hunting or pulsing it did fine on that I also noted
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that it did fairly good when I was doing a selfie mode type vlogging and walking along let's take a look at that okay and
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a secondary test here I've got we're just going to see how we're doing as far as tracking my eye this is just using
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the kit lens the XC 15 to 45 mm so we're going to see how it does as I move
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through a slight bit of varying lighting conditions just to see how good it stays locking onto my eye now of course in
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this case depth the field is not super shallow this lens has at this point a
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maximum aperture of f3.5 and so we're not having a tiny depth of field but at
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the same time it does have to obviously stay locked on my eye so far as far as what I'm seeing on the box the Box will
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occasionally switch from eye to eye but at least it is staying pretty consistently locked on an eye for
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vlogging obviously that's going to be an important thing so in that situation obviously there's less kind of back and
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forth type fluctuations I'm going to as I duck and move my head there's mild uh fluctuations but it's not any kind of
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major change it's mostly a static distance between the camera and the subject myself where Things Fall Apart
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is when something starts to actually approach the camera and so here is yet
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another example to illustrate that okay and this shot I'm going to emerge from behind the tree and then move towards
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the camera we'll see how it does in picking me up and tracking me as I move along so obviously that last segment is
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a pretty huge fail and and that is where it really illustrates how far behind
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particularly for video Fuji still is they still need a lot of work when I do Focus pulls I'm still far more likely to
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see visible steps in the process less certainty the touchcreen is still
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sometimes unresponsive if I want to click to move Focus to somewhere else sometimes it doesn't react at all and
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then sometimes it reacts fairly quickly it's just really inconsistent it's better but it's still the weak area I
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would say for this particular camera now shutter here is pretty decent um the on
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the negative side the mechanical shutter it does have a full mechanical shutter so that's good however it is limited at
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only up to 8 frames per second some of the competing cameras will do at least 11 and maybe even up to 15 in mechanical
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mode uh upper upper shutter limit is 1/ 4,000th of a second when using the mechanical shutter you can have however
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switch to an electronic shutter and so that gets you up to 133,000 of a second in terms of your shutter speed um and it
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will allow you to shoot up to 20 frames per second with the full readout now there is some limitations to that you're
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not going to get as good of dynamic range images just image quality isn't quite as good and because there is um
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you know because it's not really super fast and it's readout you will run into the potential of getting some rolling
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shutter some objects that kind of exagger ated or distorted if you're kind of panning across t a fast action you
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can get even up to 30 frames per second if you switch into the sport crop mode that does crop it down and so to a 1.25
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times crop so your image size is going to be a little bit smaller um a little lower resolution however you can if you
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really need to get really fast Burst you can uh get up to 30 frames per second I
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do like a a um something that Fuji has and that you can go into kind of a hybrid mode to where where underneath a
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certain shutter limit you'll get full mechanical shutter and then it will automatically switch to the electronic
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mode and so that you can get faster shots if you're shooting with a bright lens for example I went out with the 56
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mm f1.2 earlier today and in bright Sun it would automatically switch into that electronic shutter and so that I could
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get a you know a I could actually control the shutter speed to where I could get adequate metering even in
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bright situations now I I kind of Hit the X100 V6 a bit because it had some limitations
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or VI I should say x16 I it had some limitations to the buffer depth this model is helped by the
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fact that although it just has uh UHS one compatible SD card which is slow by
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modern standards the fact that it has the smaller 26 megapixel sensor instead of the 40 megapixel sensor helps a lot
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and so buer buffer depth is not bad here on the best end of the spectrum you can
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get as many as 100 73 jpegs that's if you're shooting in mechanical mode at 8 frames per second if you shoot in that
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electronic mode at 20 frames per second it drops to 127 um jpegs it's because you know it's
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that buffer can't handle that more rapid amount of data coming into it if you're shooting in raws if you're shooting
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compressed raws you can get as many as 82 compressed raws again that's at at the eight frames per second and or as
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little as 60 uh frames per or 60 uh compressed raws if you're shooting at
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the faster 20 frames per second now if you're shooting lossless compressed raw which is my preferred file format you're
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going to get as much as only 38 and as little as 34 so obviously you're much more restricted when you get to that
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point so it's it's fine for capturing you know small burst of action but this is not a sports camera and you know
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maybe it's the only camera you have and use it for whatever you need to but know that it's not going to be the best
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option particularly since it's doesn't have a viewfinder it can be hard to track action particularly in difficult
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light without a viewfinder but overall as far as the actual buffer depth I've definitely seen worse and so I I give it
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fairly good marks on that front let's talk about video now the unique thing here is that unlike a lot of competitors
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you can shoot up to 6.2k I need to qualify that a little bit that is 6.2
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open gate and so open gate means that it is shooting the whole sensor and that means it's shooting with the the typical
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crop factor which is 32 and so it's shooting more like you would a still image and you can get that whole footage
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and what you can do later if you're wanting to get to the widescreen 169 or some other type crop you have to crop it
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in post so I don't want you to think that you're getting 6K video in 169
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that's not true but you are getting that open gate uh footage where you can crop that down in a variety of ways including
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vertically which is where it can be useful you can get full 10 bit internal recording on that and so that can be
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very very useful 4K 60 you can shoot that you will get a bit of a crop at
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that a 1.18 times crop factor if you're shooting 4K 60 if you're shooting 4K 30
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you will get it with no crop now in full HD you can shoot as fast as 240 frames
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per second if you're wanting to do serious slow-mo footage it will include a lot of the modern high-end features
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like f log 2 you can do hlg for high dynamic range footage and as noted you
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can use a digital stabilizer that works okay but it will come with a big crop
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factor as much as 1.44 times of crop depending on what mode that you're shooting in and so obviously that's
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you're going to have to be shooting with much wider lenses than what you might want for your actual shot if you're going to use that digital
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stabilization probably a better option is to actually just get a motorized gimbal this camera is really lightweight
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so you can buy relatively cheap one and thus you're going to get much better stabilization if you're plan on getting
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shots on the Move Fuji's footage is good and of course you have the ability if you want if you're not shooting in a log
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that you can you know put one of their film simulations and get a unique look maybe match the look of your footage to
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the look of some Stills you're going to take as a part of a project so all of that I find to be very useful and as is
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per usual you get nicely detailed looking footage out of the camera itself it also seems to do quite well in heat
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dissipation and so they do have a like a long format mode that's designed to hit
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overheating but the truth of matter is unless you're using an external power source you're probably likely to either
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run out into a dead battery or a memory card that is reached its full capacity
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um before you're going to actually overheat so not a major problem there finally let's talk about the overall
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sensor performance I'm going to actually give you more of a sensor overview here the truth of the matter is that I've
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already reviewed this sensor a half dozen times before another camera so there's nothing new Under the Sun here
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this is a 26 megapixel xtran sensor the resolution is
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6,240 by 4,160 pixels and so a good amount of
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resolution you know not off the charts but it it equals the highest resolution Point that's available from Sony at this
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point and so a very nice and useful amount of resolution there it has a base
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ISO in this sensor of 160 and so their 40 megapixel sensor gets you down to 125
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and so um you know and obviously some of the competing cameras will go as low as ISO 100 so that is to me is a little bit
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of a a liability there but the iso range is 160 to 12,800 what I have found with this
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sensor in repeated test is that it's actually really good when it comes to ISO performance I would say that that's
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one area where the Fuji sensor is ahead of Sony sensor and throughout the native
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range up to 12,000 800 I feel like it really does quite good and the there's
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going to be noise but there isn't any obvious color um banding or things like
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that and so overall delivers quite clean results and I haven't hesitated sometimes to shoot at very high isos
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with these cameras now when it comes to the dynamic range this is an area where Fuji sensors are not at the level of
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what Sony is at and so uh Sony is about a half stop better in terms of dynamic range but this is you know it's not like
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completely out of the ballpark like some of Canon sensors used to be and so it's not bad there and of course if you're
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wanting to get a little bit more dynamic range in a single shot you have the option if you put the iso up to 3 320
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you can select what they call dr200 and yes it's it's Electronics um
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but what it's going to do is it's going to sample the highlights from the base ISO
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one60 and it's going to get the shadow information from the higher ISO 320 so
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what that means is you're getting a little bit more exposure in the shadows but less exposure in the highlights and so it just means you have more to play
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with when you're processing and if you go up to ISO 600 excuse me ISO 640 you
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can get their Dr 400 and so that's actually sampling two stops above base ISO and then keeping base ISO for the
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highlights again very very useful in that regard and so um I actually do
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often shoot when I'm shooting Landscapes I I most likely shoot in dr200 when shooting Fuji cameras cuz I like having
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just a little bit of head room to work with particularly in recovering Skies now I do find that the xtran sensor is
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it is more complicated to sharpen and so I I find that in comparative side by side I can get sharper looking results
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out of a Sony camera than I could out of a Fuji camera or a Canon camera over a Fuji etc etc some people love the
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x-trans sensor and you know claim its virtues I'm I'm not as much of a fan but
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again your mileage may vary there I would say the real magic of this camera
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when it comes to image quality is going to be for those of you that shoot jpegs it is there's a wide variety of film
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simulations and they have added some of the most recent ones incling including reala Ace one that I really really love
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and so you can have 20 different film simulations um that are base simulations
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and then you can tweak any of them to a to further to a look that you like you can add or eliminate grain you can
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change the the Shadow or highlight information a little bit and so bottom line is if you spend some time tweaking
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you can really get a look that you like right in your jpegs and so if you're someone that wants to just shoot images
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get them in camera and then not mess with them in post-processing this is a great camera if you don't want to edit
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and that is I think the real strength of Fuji system in general and I will say of
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the xm5 as well so that leads me to my conclusion the Fujifilm xm5 it feels a
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lot like some of Fuji's other you know cheaper camera models there's not anything here that's necessarily
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revolutionary however but I think the pivot to the vlogging features does all
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it was a clever move it allows this camera to have its own unique Niche where it's set apart from uh from some
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other cameras in general but also some of Fuji's other cameras so rather than this this just being the cheapest camera
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that they sell which is where it OCC where it stands as far as the you know their hierarchy of pricing but it also
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now is a dedicated camera that is unique it's Unique in that it has the vlogging specific features those extra microphone
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settings the vlogging menu and the options there and so I think that that pivot was smart for them because it
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gives the xm5 a unique identity other than just being small and cheap Fuji's
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biggest disadvantage remains their autofocus that despite making strides it
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always seems like they're just behind everyone else their biggest strength is
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their color science and that huge range now of apsc specific lenses from both
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first and third parties at this stage you know no one is doing APC development
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like Fuji is and the fact that now you can get a wide variety of thirdparty lenses at a huge variety of price points
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and many of them by the way work really really well you know I think it makes the Fuji platform really attractive if
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you're looking at it just from an apsc perspective if you're someone who says I want apsc that's all I'm ever going to
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shoot I'm never going to full frame well the truth the matter is that all the other brands they kind of augment their
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apsc space with the argument that you know what if you want this particular focal length there's a full-frame lens
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that covers that problem is of course is fullframe lenses are going to be unnecessarily large and and heavy and so
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in this case you can get smaller lighter lenses and you know lenses for example like their new uh 16 to 55 mm f2.8 Mark
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I I use that a lot during my review time fantastic lens and tremendously smaller
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than any kind of equivalent Zoom you're going to get um on other brands that you
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know most likely you're going to have to go to a full-frame lens so anyway I think that they do have some net advantages it's priced well can deliver
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good image quality um but you're going to have to realize you know no viewfinder so you're going to have to
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live with that and also realize that autofocus particularly for a video isn't going to be maybe quite as good as what
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it is on some other brands I'm Dustin Abbott and if you want more information you can check out my full text review
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it's linked in the description down below there's also linkage to an image gallery if you just want to look at some photos as always thanks for watching
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have a great day and let the light in
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